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VEHICLE SPR-ING. No. 839,588. Patented Apr. 6, 1886.

NITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

FRED SCHELP, JR., OF BALLVIN, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO GEORGE H.SOHELP, OF SAME PLACE.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECEFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,588, dated April6,1886,

Application filed November 16. 1885. Serial No. lSlQGS. (Xo model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED Serienr, Jr., of Ballwin, St. Louis county,Missouri, have made anew and useful Improvement in Vehide-Springs, ofwhich the fiillowiugis a full,

clear, and exact description.

The improvement consists in the employment of two springs whoseinnerends lap and are attached to the body or the spring-barof thevehicle,and whose outer ends extend in opposite directions and arerespectively attached to opposite ends of the vehicleaxle, andpreferably upon opposite sides of the axle.

The annexed drawings, making part of this I5 specificatioiuexhibit themostapprovedinode of carrying out the improvement.

Figure l is a bottom view of so much of the vehicle as is necessary toan understanding of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a View in perspeetivelooking from beneath ot' the spring as attached in place.

The same letters ot' reference denote the same parts.

A represents the vehicle-body. B B represent the vehicle-axles, and C Crepresent the boards, plates, and bars to which the upper or inner endsof the springs are more immediately attached, all of which parts are ofthe customary forms.

D D represent the two springs which connect the vehicle-body, or theboards, plates, or bars C C' of the vehicle-body, with the axle. Theirinner ends, d d, respectively, not only lap, but preferably extendsufficiently past each other to bring the points of attachment of theends d d Well toward the opposite sides of the vehicle-body, or,what isthe same thing, well toward the opposite ends, respectively, of theboard, plate, or bar The springs D D 4o thence extend in oppositedirections, and

by means of suitable and Well-known modes ot' attachment are connectedwith the vehicleaxle B well toward the opposite end thereof, andpreferably, and as shown, upon opposite sides, respectively, of theaxle. In this manner avery long spring can be used to support thevehicle body. A similar pair ot' the springs D D can be used at each endof the vehicle-hody-that is, the springs D D can be used at eitherorboth ends ot' the vehicle-body, 5o as desired. I also desire not to belimited to springs whose inner ends, d d, lap at their point ofattachment to the vehicle-body, as in some instances-as in Wide-trackvehiclesthe springs need not lap at their point of attachment.

I claiml. The herein-described springs D D, whose inner ends lap and areattached to the body or the spring-bar of the vehicle,and Whose outer 6oends extend in opposite directions and are respectively attached toopposite ends and respectivel y upon opposite sides of the axle.

2. Theherein-described springs D D, whose inner ends lap and areattached to tl1evel1icle-/65 body,or to some part of the body Welltowardopposite side's, respectively, of the body, and whose outer ends extendin opposite directions, respectively, and are respectively attached toopposite ends and respectively upon opposite sides of the axle.

3. The springs D D, attached to the axle B upon opposite sides andtoward opposite ends, respectively, of the axle, and at their upper endssupporting the vehicle-bod y at opposite sides, respectively, thereof.

FRED SCHELP, JR.

W`it1iesses C. D. MooDY, (lino. H. Sor-Tum).

